Margaret Stanton
Since her birth in Cleveland, Ohio on August 4, 1960, Margaret Stanton has viewed the world through the eyes of a true artist. Today, her commissioned paintings and murals can be seen in homes, hospitals, libraries, hotels, restaurants, office buildings, airports and other public spaces virtually everywhere. Stanton has spent entire summers in Europe developing a looser painting style in the open air in Prague and around Macha's Lake in northwest Bohemia. The greatest influence on Stanton's recent work was a visit to the Blue Rider's Exhibit in Munich in 2001. These simple, yet brilliantly colored impressions of village life truly impressed the artist. The Hawaiian seascapes incorporate the primary colors with a highly charged surface; far different from the smoother, tighter surfaces of her earlier work. Stanton's method was to start each painting in the open air, and then work on each one in the studio, giving each painting a chance to develop extremely brilliant color and a highly expressive surface. As a result of the innumerable touches and layers of paint on the surface, these paintings have a far larger internal scale, a larger sense of size than their dimensions would indicate. The depth of the temperature felt and expansiveness of the atmosphere sensed in these paintings owes just as much to the interesting surface treatment as it does to the color.
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